Parkville was a gold mining camp that flourished from 1860 to 1866 near the confluence of the middle and south forks of the Swan River.

At its creation, Summit County covered roughly the entire northwest portion of the Colorado Territory.

These tokens did not look like standard U.S. coinage and were of varying fineness and weight, thus losing the confidence of the townsfolk.

[5] Parkville, then the largest town in the region, was "the logical choice" to become the Summit County seat.

[1] By 1911, later hydraulic mining had buried much of the former townsite in waste rock and the Masonic cemetery is among the few remaining visible relics.